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Well, howdy there internet peeps and train chasers.

It's Troy again.

Currently 72 F degrees and I'm enjoying an afternoon on the patio. Normally I'd be watching the hummingbirds coming to the feeder.

But the arseholes have moved into the neighborhood.

So I broke out the trap. This year I added racing stripes to it.
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The wife donated a small chunk of watermelon to my sugar water with dish soap.

Caught one little yellow & black arse so far. Three others buzzing around the funnel but they don't seem like they want to swim.

I'll keep watching and let you know the count later.
 


I just got done playing golf with my friends that were in Saratoga for the long weekend and John the owner of the house they were staying at told me he sold the house for $900,000.00 while he was there. He said, the paperwork has to get done but the house is sold. He said I wanted to get $600,000.00 for the house but the guy offered me $900,000.00 so I took it. A lot of rich racing horse owners up there for the racing last weekend and I guess one of them wanted a place there. I also have one other golf friend who owns a large house there. I'm going to tell him that John sold his $900,000.00 and see what he says.
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NYC_George said:
I don't mind my wife paying her own way. I'm good with that. The fact is their telling me I can only own one car. The other car is an asset. What does this all have to do with me owning 2 cars but if I go out and buy a $75,000.00 truck that's OK as long as I only own one car. I don't how many train cars are concerted an asset. Just let me know what half of everything I get to keep. I wish it would end soon so I can figure out where I stand in all this. Just let me have my half you take the rest.
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CambriaArea51 said:
Must be different in NY
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Varies state to state. $2k/income is the arbitrary determination of poverty $24k/year. Some states include assets, others...well it varies depending on the caseworker. The 2K asset limit includes income - all sources, SSA - Pension - gifts. Gets confusing.
 
santafewillie said:
Is it the ground throws themselves, or the size. I have started using their N scale throws which have enough throw distance for all Atlas HO turnouts.
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It’s the ground throws. I have over 50 N scale ones from previous layouts and they worked fine but I alway thought the look was off!

I have 2 under table manual machines hooked up now, the cable to operate them should be here Saturday. I’m looking at Blue Point machines but decided to wait to make sure I don’t mind using the cable linkages. I prefer the fascia be clear of anything but realize it probably doesn’t matter as at most there will be 4 people operating this layout
 
I use maybe a half dozen HO scale machines for the old Shinohara #4s within the industrial zone, and one Athearn #6 crossover. They are oversized, but resemble Racor stands. The Upright stands with side lever look better, (and like the CNJ switch stands on the Southern Division), but mostly i just flip over the sprung points on ME and the New Walthers switches. They also work well with arthritic fingers.
 


Been banging my head against the wall at work. We're late with some stuff. The other engineer I was working with on a proof of concept (and he was the main guy who had been to all the design meetings) got called to a customer site for 2 weeks and then ended up taking 2 weeks off to recuperate and catch up on home stuff when he got back -- on site was very stressful. So I had to step up and do some of his stuff. He's back but I've been working on the last bit so he's leading efforts to squash bugs in the next release while I try and finish the last bit of the proof of concept. We're using some new to me technologies (still iPhone based -- just some new ways to program them not based as much on the long time tech behind it) and I've been getting some errors in code that I don't get and Google is not helping. Frustrating. And I need to be able to get this done as people are waiting for the proof of concept to validate a design so we can start the actual product using the design (changes to existing product). And it's keping me from getting lots done on the house.

Just venting.

thanks
 
Great photos of the Heritage lineup there, although I have to say I wish more than a few of those roads had NOT been swept up by the UP--and in fact they haven't been in my own RR's parallel universe, at least. :cool:

Of those, I'll name the three the UP (sadly :() did take over: Rio Grande, first and foremost; the SP (and Cotton Belt too, I suppose); and the MoPac. It's not a huge issue here though, as I focus on the earlier era's anyway where all three of roads were still quite independent. I kinda figure, from those perspectives, that the "future" of my own universe will take care of itself, and much more favorably to my own schemes than it has done in THIS universe. 😕

That said, I don't know how many here know that the Rio Grande was basically bled "vampire dry" by Wall Street's George Gould back at the turn of the last century in order to finance the building of his then brand new Western Pacific. Which resulted in what was essentially a co-ownership of the Rio Grande by both the MoPac at one end and the WP at the other, and which resulted in the bankruptcy of the Denver and Pueblo Colorado/Eastern Utah road somewhere around 1910 (IIRC). I THINK by then the D&RGW had moved onto mainline-wise (from the old narrow gauge perspective) to the standard gauge spacing used by both other connecting roads at both ends of the system. Not that it prevented the bankruptcy....

Anyone who is interested in this stuff might hunt up a copy of Robert Athearn's "Rebel of the Rockies," which was pretty much a company sanctioned history of itself. Not hugely expensive right now at roughly $25 a copy through the Amazon Marketplace, and well worth anyone's reading time, IMO.
 
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NorthBrit said:
You are lucky. Here 'up north' you can collect mail from 08.00 - 10.00 Mon - Sat.
Gone are the 07.00- 12.00 Mon- Tue. Thur. - Sat.
Wednesday used to be 07.00 - 20.00
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When you say "collect" do you mean you have to go down to your local post-office to get it?

If so, and FWIW, you have to do this too even in the rich community of Carmel CA. The office hours are probably better, yes, but if IIRC, Carmel doesn't even have a fire department. Which is a pretty big gamble every year, given the height of those old Redwoods.

Can't remember if there is even a local bus service, in fact. But it has been quite a few years....
 
Snowman said:
Great photos of the Heritage lineup there, although I have to say I wish more than a few of those roads had NOT been swept up by the UP--and in fact they haven't been in my own RR's parallel universe, at least. :cool:

Of those, I'll name the three the UP (sadly :() did take over: Rio Grande, first and foremost; the SP (and Cotton Belt too, I suppose); and the MoPac. It's not a huge issue here though, as I focus on the earlier era's anyway where all three of roads were still quite independent. I kinda figure, from those perspectives, that the "future" of my own universe will take care of itself, and much more favorably to my own schemes than it has done in THIS universe. 😕
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Rio Grande and SP had already merged in 1987. When UP "merged" with SP in 1996, it merged itself into SP, then changed its name to UP. So, technically, SP still exists, though renamed UP. A difference that makes no difference is no difference, but our society seems to live by technicalities.
 


Snowman said:
When you say "collect" do you mean you have to go down to your local post-office to get it?
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We get a daily mail delivery to the door. If unable to deliver packages we have to go to our delivery office to collect.
People working have great challenges to collect packages/parcels. Delivery Offices cover big areas. Not only is the distance to collect an item, but the opening time of the office is inconvenient in most cases.
 
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